Annie messenger



(No Model.) 2 SheetsSheet 1.

A. MESSENGER. CHIMNEY CLEANER.

No. 606,567. Patented June 28, 1898.

WZYMQSSGSJ' & WM? V564 6 dum (No Model.) 2 Sheets-Sheet 2.

" A. MESSENGER.

CHIMNEY CLEANER.

No. 606,567. Patented June 28, 1898.

F15- El-- mfizesses Inventor:

W 7 I o iwrngys- UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ANNIE MESSENGER, OF SALTBURN, ENGLAND.

CHIMNEY-CLEAN ER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 606,567, dated June 28,1898.

Application filed November 30, 1897. Serial No. 660,275. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.- Be it known that LANNIE MESSENGER, asubject of the Queen of Great Britain and Ireland, residing atSaltburn-by-the-Sea, in the county of York, England, have inventedcertain new and useful Improvements in Machines for Sweeping Chimneys;and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exactdescription of theinvention,such as will enable Others skilled in theart to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to sweeping chimneys, and has for its object toeffect this in an efficient and cleanly manner by means of a machinewhich is portable or fixed and capable 7 of being operated by theordinary domestic servant.

be understood that my invention is not limited to the precisecombination or arrangement of details therein shown,a s these can bemodified into well-known equivalents in various ways.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a transverse sectional view of a stovefitted with a machine constructed in accordance with my invention. Fig.2 is a sectional plan view taken on line as as of Fig. 1, and Fig. 3 isa corresponding front elevation thereof. Figs. 4 and 5 are sectional andplan views, respectively, of the top of the chimney-pot.

The same letters of reference indicate the same parts in all thefigures. I

a is a flexible fire-resisting tensile appliance, such as wire rope, thelength of which is not less than twice the height of the chimney, sothat it canbe carried over a pulley b, placed as near as possible to thetop of the chimney, to'be used for working a brush or brushes 0,attached to the wire rope, up and down the chimney in the mannerrequired for cleaning the soot out. To effect this, both ends of thewire rope a are temporarily secured, as by shackles d d to the ends oftwo ropes e 6 which are secured to two drums f f or to different parts.of the same drum in such manner that when the drum or drums ff rotateone rope,e ,is paid out as the other, e, is drawn in. Other pulleys orrollers g g are placed in such relation to the operatingdrums f f thatthe ropes are guided by them into the line of pull which willconveniently work the brush or brushes 0 up and down. Theoperating-drums are rotated by means of the handle h,and all the movingparts, except the brush or brushes, are combined together as oneapparatus, which is placed in position in front of the stove, which isthen closed in by the supporting-framework of the apparatus. Thissupportingframework conveniently takes the form of a fiat surface orshutter 2' of a size to close in the whole front of the stove. A casingj projects outwardly therefrom for the accommodation of theoperating-drums, above which is an opening is through the shutter toenable the operator to get access to the ropes and fix the brush orbrushes ready for working, during which this opening is closed up tokeep the soot out of the room. The brush or brushes move up or down asthe handle h is turned one way or the other. This disturbs the soot,which falls down to the bottom of the chimney and preferably into a bagor receptacle Z, provided for the purpose. When the operation iscompleted, the ropes e e on the drums are detached from the wire ropescoin the chimney, which latter are lashed to a hook or staple m untilrequired for the next sweeping out of the chimney.

I do not confine myself to the winding apparatus being portable. It maybe arranged as a fixture in any convenient place or places in a stove.This arrangement is especially suitable for new stoves.

Having now described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is-

In a machine for sweeping chimneys, the

fireplace and provided with a door, a casing brush attached by itshandle to said rope or attached to said plate, an operating-handlechain, substantially as described. 10 supported thereon, a drumjournaled in said In testimony whereof I have affixed my sigcasing,guide-pulleys also journaled in said nature in presence of twoWitnesses.

5 casing", a guide-pulley fastened to the top of ANNIE MESSENGER.

the chimney, a rope or chain with its ends \Vitnesses: wound in oppositedirections on said drum GEORGE JAMES CLARKSON,

and passing over said guide-pulleys and a HENRY MESSENGER.

